contacto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,191
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
contacto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de tocar o de tocarse. Pronounced [kõn̪ˈt̪akt̪o]. It ranks #1,191 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with contado and contrato.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contacto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪ˈt̪akt̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contacto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪ˈt̪akt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,191 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for contacto, with forms such as "ccontacto", "cnotacto", and "conatcto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "contado", "contrato", "contexto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is contacto, spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de tocar o de tocarse.
- 2El estado de estar en proximidad inmediata.
- 3Relación, asociación o comunicación entre dos o más organizaciones personas o entidades.
- 4Persona a través de la cual se tiene acceso a información, autorizaciones, influencia o a otras personas, etc.
- 5Dispositivo que establece o permite la corriente eléctrica entre dos o mas conductores eléctricos.
- 6Por extensión, estado del auto en el que se enciende el sistema eléctrico, previo al arranque del motor.
- 7Impresión en positivo, obtenida por contacto de un negativo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontacto,cnotacto,conatcto,conntacto,contaccto,contacot,contactto,contatco,contcato,conttacto,cotnacto,ocntacto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contacto
Misspelling Variants of "contacto"
Frequency rank: #1,191 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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